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If DFW is the 4th biggest media market, shouldn't there be more than one team for each sport here in DFW 

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You're listening to the Downbeat on ninetyseven to one The Freak your friendly neighborhood
down Beat, seven o'clock Tuesday four, nine twenty four. Thanks for tuning

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in six or ten each and everyweekday morning eight ten. We got Don
Van Dada joining us. He's writinga book on Jerry Jones. Be fun
to kick around some questions and topicswith Don Van Natta Junior. Jump in,
jump into the down beat, singit Danny. I already did karaokeed
out for the week. Yeah,yeah, for sure. Some guys said

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he loved it, but also said, you know, maybe not every big
event, or maybe not all thetime. I said, only big events.
Yeah, that's a special event.Sink out of my ow. Get
ready more eclipse stuff at nine.I think we got some audio of how
news stations handle this. Nine o'clockis going to be soil voted with fun.

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Yeah, it's ready. It shouldbe good. It was amazing.
If you want to leave talkbacks aboutyour experience or I don't know, whatever's
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Twitter or on Twitter on the textsacond morning, guys. I underestimated the

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eclipse. I lived a total onein Mexico thirty plus years ago, didn't
think much of it. Yesterday inmy backyard, I watched it totality immediately.
Thank God for allowing me my childrento experience. It. Was unreal.
I think some people even and notto say this guy cynical, but
I know some of us are,and maybe it serves you well in this
modern world. But I was justthinking that moment, all that crab washes

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away and you just deep breath,and that's how it was for me.
Man. I wonder if there wasalso the communal aspect of it, that
for four minutes at least in ourarea, you had upwards of I don't
know millions of people all doing theexact same thing together. Yeah, I

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just thought about that aspect of it. I don't know if there's some some
kind of connected energy or some kindof cool factor in that that, you
know, with all of our differencesin a world that's separated by politics and
misinformation, that for one, youknow, brief moment in time that only
happens in this area once every howevermany years. I think the next one's

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two hundred and ninety seven years awayif you live in DFW. That for
that one brief moment that we wereall able to come together for a common
cause, and it was. Itwas beautiful and peaceful and good, one
quiet moment. Who COVID vital timeout if you will a reset? Yeah?
Yeah, the slate is white clean. We've been rebaptized by the sun

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and the moon, the sun godthat we looked up in song Raw.
Did it make you guys want togo to North Dakota in twenty forty four
or whatever? I thought about?What was it? Alaska? So there's
Alaska. But they're saying, don'tcome around here. Well, it's just
tough because the cloud the high riskof clouds always in Alaska. Well,
there's other options too. We mightget into some of those later. Another

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another great text that I thought.I mean, I don't know if you
read this one, Mikey, We'rejust gonna pretend like Kevo didn't just say
that he eats peanut butter sandwiches withno jelly. Yeah. I don't like
jelly. It's too sweet. Butyou said you like the fluffer Nutter.
I love the fluffer nutter and that'smarshmallow, right, yeah, and that's
sweet. Yeah, there's way moresweetness than jelly, unless you get sugar

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free jelly, which I can tellyou is disgusting. So you like a
sandwich with peanut butter and marshmallow.Oh yeah, it's number one. It's
your number one. The fluffer Nuttergame. My year soda was a year
of fluffer nutter and it's good.Yeah, peanut butter and marshmallows. That
good October treat. Do you meltthe marshmallows or they're just all sponge little

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sponges of the spread, Oh,the marshmallow spread. When you say once
a year and you mean once amonth, no, it's a year.
Okay. So you have a jarthat you have a jar that crap in
your fridge and you just use itonce a year. What do you do
with it? You throw it awayafterwards because it can't be good after you
you're still in my cabinet. Yeah, now I don't put it in the
fridge. Marshmallow lasts over a yearin a cabinet. You like bread,

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I don't know, but it's stillin there from last time. I don't
know. Those are the questions everyone'sasking themselves. Is marshmallows still good after
a year and a cabinet? Ifyou nasty bit can knock the fluffer nutter
if you want. I'm just saying, much like the eclipse, let it
take over your body. Minutes afluffer nutter changes your life. And when

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the room get it's darker. Asyou bite into that fluffer nutder, you
look around and go, this isthe world really is bigger than me.
Fluff nut ke seems like the kindof guy that would have the peanut butter
and jelly combo in a jar.You know, remember that invention from thee

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I just don't like jelly that much. I don't like jelly. I don't
like jello. A little thin smearof grape or of strawberry preserves peanut butter
jelly. If you put jelly onbagels too, sometimes you see that horrible
not on bagels. English muffins fine, but not bagel. Has never been

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a jelly fan my whole life.I realized you didn't invent the fluff nutter.
It is a popular thing, butI I've never tried it, and
I have no worge to do.So JJ, how'd you take in the
eclipse at home? Yeah? Yeah, I was like, huh, alright,
Okay, it was cool because Iwant a different communities treat outdoor and

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celestial events differently by different communities.Do you mean the African American if that's
what you're saying, No, hemet walks of hatchees. Yeah, the
community of the community at the community. Well, I have a very good
friend Donovan, who famously doesn't reallycare about things that happen outside, doesn't
want to go look at animals orcelestial events. I did appreciate the TikTok

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jokes afterwards, of like making funof cheap glasses that were used and all
that stuff having pretty funny. Butyeah, I like, I didn't.
Honestly, I couldn't. I waslike, oh, it's coming up because
it was getting darker, and soI was like, okay, and then
just watch everything go pitch black andall the street lights come on. You're
like, oh, okay, that'sactually pretty cool. You didn't have a
moment of clarity when it went fulland a deep breath and a reset of

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your life and existence. No,I watch a little on Instagram Live.
Then I was like, this iscool. What do you watch on it?
You had insta Instagram Live. Yeah, I'm supporting. Did you go
out with your he says nephews,Like, no, I didn't. It
was crazy because walks out you wasactually out of school. Wait, so

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were they? Yeah? They were. I'm assuming they're at home, oh,
because I don't know if they experiencedit. I don't know if they
experienced it, but but you thinkthey may have just stayed inside. No,
they probably went out because I wasunder that anyone who just I think
for families and kids like something likethis is cool, like real cool to
experience with your family. But youknow, I'm just like, okay,
cool. I don't know. I'mnot big with it, like with something

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like that. White people love theeclipse. Maybe that's watch the eclipse and
go back inside and start up thewire. I literally went back to bed
because it was in the middle ofmy nap. But you well, I
was like laying in bed on myphone about to go to sleep, and
I thought, I was, ohmy god, the eclips a couple of

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minutes. Why not you almost leaptthrough almost I was wondering how many people
napped through the eclipse, but hehad to work too. Like like I
was like, I went to thestore last night and I was like,
all, if these people get togo outside, like they're a cashier that
a store, Yeah, they allowedto go outside and take in this ten
minutes. Check this out. Sothe mail after totality happened, the sun

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started, you know, coming back, and the world became light again.
My mailman letter carrier was just arrivingat our house and Malcolm and I are
out in the front yard and hewas on the phone and he and he
stopped to have a conversation. He'sa great dude, so we kind of
talking about it a little bit,and he told me that the directive was

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given by his bosses. Hey,when the eclipse happens, we want you
guys to keep working, don't stopand you know, don't stop your route,
just to stare at the sun forten minutes. And he said,
yeah, like any of us weregoing to do that. No, he
goes, when that thing happened,I was standing out on somebody's front yard.

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He had his glasses and everything.Yeah, it was like, good
for you, dude, and wekind of connected on that. It was
kind of you know, it wasdude, everybody that I've talked to and
all everything that I've heard, allthe posts that I've seen, it was
a really unique experience. I justdon't know how else to describe it.
And probably people are I bet thereare cynical people listening to us right now,

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going you guys shut up about thestupid eclipse. Yeah, probably probably,
but they don't have love in theirhearts like we do. I'll never
forget it. And there was almostno cars that were going by, including
over the arts. But I didsee mail or mailman. I saw Amazon
truck, I saw some other Yeah, like three delivery vehicles were staying on

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the move, and I did seeone, yeah truck Amazon guy. I
don't know. It wasn't during totality. Yeah, he got out and delivered
something and ran back in his truckand kept moving. When Amazon driver Joe
big A right, like how thelights it was at during the eclipse,
and so those of course I likecome on his color at night on movement.
It was, Yeah, that's prettyinteresting to see like like one o'clock

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in the afternoon it's it's black.Oh my god. Yes, yeah,
but that's so weird. That theywere told, hey, you have a
job to do, keep keep moving. And I had the glasses. I
was going to offer him to themale guy if he came by, like
to take a look. Enjoyed thisfor one second, but that nerd ass
boss said, hey, you stayon the move, especially at Amazon and

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the track. You're pretty good there. Get to your phil I noticed that
you thtopped for three minutes, nomotion whatsoever. You're off and fired.
Yeah, maybe you no longer workat Amazon. It's mind blowing. I
have more like a little news roundup of some things that had happened.

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Both of the presidents definitely took someshots at each other. It was pretty
good. During the eclipse. Ohyeah, we had some some barbing back
and forth. We get some barbinum. And the eye thing is a
big deal right now. And ifyou're experiencing a little blurred vision, maybe
some dark spots, I'll tell youwhat you need to do at seven thirty

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five. Or if you're absolutely screwed, that's a seven thirty five. Do
you ice hurd bikey? Uh no. My neck hurts a little bit and
neck pain is also a possibility.But I would be the number one target.
I think. Someone said, mygranddaughter words at Cheddars, and the
eclipse happened. They all went outside, met the Chick fil A employees next
door. They all watched the eclipsetogether, all right, So yeah,

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look at that Cheddars and Chick filA coming together. Yeah, two great
tastes I mean pushed into one,hated rivals. Yeah. Another guy said,
I was in a Chick fil A. Everyone left and I emptied out
both registers. No, no pushback, what's no pushback? It just happened
to stole a bag. A chickensandwich is spicy. Hmmm. We do

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have crimes committed during the eclipse.We do. It's seven. Come on,
boy, what about your work inthe grill at Chick fil A or
or what do you do? Youknow, like they couldn't go out.
We don't realize how lucky we arethat this was in our lap, in
our path. That's another thing,okay, like to be a cynical,

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to be cynical or jaded about it, like, okay, well this could
have been Oklahoma cities. No,this was ours. It was for us.
Don't take it for granted. That'swhy we get bad weather, That's
why we get bad things. Thathappened during some events Eye Storm yesterday,
I ended up working out the cloudscleared out in most places. There are
still a lot of places who didn'tsee it due because they were getting screwed.

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I'll tell you this real quick.I thought that the the intermittent cloud
coverage kind of added to the dramaof it all, is this gonna happen
or not? Like if we hadhad perfectly blue skies, all right,
and you're just staring at this onething and it's happening and it's clear and
it's perfect. I kind of equateit to when you open up your favorite

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adult video site and you just goright into the hardcore. I don't know.
I think that I think that wereguys that like a little uh,
you know, I want you toreveal a little under booth and then tease
me and push it back down,you know. Then I want to see
the drop, yeah, and thenthe full tea drop. It was kind

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of like a tease and you hadto kind of work for it, and
it added to the drama of it. I don't know magical, and I
have no magic. It's not forsports. At seven let's go and now

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sports, we have a big viewingnight tonight. We have MAVs at six.
You'll get your w FAA of thatcoverage of that if you like,
or you can hear it here onninety seven to one the Freak pregame at
five thirty. I'm ready MAVs,Hornets at six, Rangers, A's at
seven, Stars, Sabers at seven. We got a three for tonight,

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full slate, a triple header.I watched zero, well, I say
zero. I would paid no attentionto any basketball last night. The college
basketball game, the championship, nobit. I flipped it over. I
was surprised that it wasn't on CBS. It was on like TBS and TNT
and through TV. But they wipedthe NBA out on that night. So
you know, the college basketball canget their shine. That's nice of them.

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I do know that Connecticut won,and I do know that the men
and women's team are the first toever go back to back as national championships.
Yukon H So that's the only schoolthat has a chance to win every
year, Yukon. I just realizedI didn't see one shining moment for the
first time in a long time.I usually like one shining moment the Little

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Guys I w I never I alwaysthought the song was just so corny.
Really, I mean, yes,it's course same thing. You can enjoy
things. This night's corny. No, No, I think I get topped
skin rid of a song called oneCurse of Nolan one time about the Rangers.
Well, one Curse of Nolan willdestroy this whole team. One Curse

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of Nolan will poop on our dreams? Is that what I miss is me?
And again my old buddy Donovan,who sang one Ailing Norman. It's
a catchy song. I guess Idon't know one Ailing Norman. Here's all
these highlights of Cod and Mary hiswife, Mary grips the sigh and nd

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Jesus so dark he laughed, hecracked up when we played it. Anyway,
go Huskies, Yeah, I guessI would over three next year.
A bit of the Rangers I watchedwas they got five runs in the first
innings. That should be enough.Yeah, turn it off. Wasn't enough.

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Bad things then happened. Heeney gaveup a BUTTL load. It was
just rough. So they end upusing they tie the series at the Astros,
so we don't get the silver boot. But it didn't lose it either.
We get a chance at redemption onFriday as we begin a three game
set with them on the road inHouston, where we will have an undeniable

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champion of the first seven games ofthe year, and if we get the
boot, we can bring it home. We get Oakland. You are what's
going on with Oakland? This isinsane to me. They're moving their ballpark
this year. This is happening toSacramento. They're not moving their ballpark.
Well no, I'm sorry, Yeah, a good point. They're their team.
That would be weird. We're movingthe whole thing four billion dollars.

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That's the reason they're leaving is becausethey hate their ballpark so much. They're
moving to Sacramento to a minor leagueballpark that holds ten thousand people. I
kind of love this. And they'redoing it from twenty five until twenty eight.
I think because the Vegas move's nothappening or is not ready to go.

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They're going to play in a tenthousand seat park for three years in
Sacramento. Dude, and there oneof our division rivals. Well, they're
one of the teams in our division. You're like, God, I gotta
go to that minor league park andplay, but they hate it. There's
the amenities would be trash compared towhat you're used to. Of course,

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now, if i'm the other teamsin baseball, I'm like, if they're
not gonna be serious, let's justget rid of them. Like they're they're
trying to lose games too. Imean, it does not look like they're
trying to win. It's really ridiculousthat that's happening. So do we know
where they're building that park in Vegas? Is that going to be Strip Boy
too? They fully know that they'regoing to Vegas. I don't think it's

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done. Oh really yeah, that'smy understanding without reading a deep article on
it or anything. What is thepoint I Jeff passed on ESPN talking about
the other day and he was like, so that they're going to the Sacramento
He's almost like shaking his head likethat. It is the point of them
going to Sacramento. Their fans don'twant them there. They don't go to
the games. Now, they're likethree thousand people go to their games,

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and they've already like announced that they'releaving officially or no, yes, they
signed a deal to go to Sacramentonext year. Okay, but Vegas.
So but Vegas. The Vegas dealI don't think is done. I think
it's all just talked about. Idon't think that's done. So they're just
lame ducks and a team that doesn'tcare anyway and maybe trying to lose.
So weird. Yeah, that's veryodd. It's very strange. Uh I

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see, maybe it's for a laterdate. But I was just thinking,
I mean, okay, fine,we're not going to get the a's here,
but we just moved into what thefourth spot for the Metroplex, Like,
I think we're the fourth biggest marketnow. I mean New York has
two, LA has two. Okay, Eric Johnson, let's go, and

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Chicago has two. Let's go.I mean, it's not insane. Are
you creating audio clickbait Mikey he's tryingto swing the election. Are you going
to bring the chiefs in town towell? No, okay, laugh about
it, but why it's not insanethat the Metroplex would have a second baseball
team. I don't know about asecond football team. That seems like a

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bit much, but well probably yeah, Houston counts as that for us Chicago
doesn't have that other team in there. New York. Houston's five hours away,
I know, but it's still apart of our Like the areas have
ten teams within five hours. Yeah, I know, I'm saying right now

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to talk about and yeah, wheneverEric Johnson talks about it's like, yeah,
sure, guy, but the threein front of us all have two.
And it's just crazy to think it'snot crazy to think it shouldn't be.
So I don't know that if theA's in Vegas is not a done
deal, and I don't think thatit's even been discussed. But yes,
a brand new, badass future domeand Frisco before Worth get on it,

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and a second baseball team Frisco geton it. If there's no way Fort
Worth would embrace any team other thanthe Rangers, you'd have to go to
Frisco. Dallas could have done it. Dallas could have done it. How
far is Arlington actively talking about buildinga new ballpark in downtown forty Frisco's Frisco

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Frisco we know is big enough,but to the masses, I don't know.
Probably it is, but bigger thanlike Kansas City. And you're right
though, it's not crazy to talkabout it's not right, but but the
Rangers are the eight one sevens teampredicted No way A's are predicted to open
up uh at the side of theTropicana on Las Vegas Strip, and it's

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not predicted of until twenty twenty eight. In fact, last weekend was the
last weekend at the Tropicana. Sothe hotel so a dump I've not stay
troupe. There's some dumpers down there. I have one what fifteen second clip
I have to play for you today. All right? This aired on c
W over the weekend. It's alift tour coverage. Here's noted hothead Tyarll

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Hatton. Okay, he hits aT shot. Oh yeah, this is
amazing. I can reach though straights, con it mostan bounce that it's fine.
Could you hear what you think?He said? A lot of fs?

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Yeah, and the last one,No, it was a double of
the worst. It was a Cword. Are you serious? Was it
f C? Yes? Hard FC? Was that? The announcer going,

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I can reach the straights, conit most wank bounce. It's fine,
that's awesome. He is a rally. Do you have the un all right?
I don't want to hear that inthe break. What a wank bounce
that one. Please tell me thatyou're going to incorporate that in your golf

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vernacular. What a wank bounced that. There's sports beautiful coming up, keV.
We'll have master stuff for you tomorrow, Kevin, coming up next?
Your eyes hurting? Did you lookup at the sun? Did you?
Did you cheat holding up in thesun? Due, Got some advice for
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